Tech & Free Speech
Meta Lobbies California to Dodge Child Harm Fines
Zuckerberg seeks safe harbor from million-dollar child harm penalties — while his platform censors Americans' speech.
June 27, 2026
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Tech & Free Speech tracks Big Tech power, censorship, deplatforming, surveillance, and AI — the fight for free speech online and in the public square. Every story ties platform policy to real-world consequences for users and publishers.
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Washington Now Decides Which AI Models You're Allowed to Use
Trump administration gates Anthropic and OpenAI releases, citing national security — while keeping consumers locked out.
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Meta Sues to Gag Its Own Former Executive Over Tell-All Memoir
Secret arbitration orders, physical surveillance — Meta deploys Silicon Valley's playbook to bury a whistleblower's book it calls 'false.'
June 27, 2026
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SpaceX Eyes T-Mobile Buyout to Smash Telecom Oligopoly
Shotwell says Starlink is going terrestrial. Analysts say buying T-Mobile is the fastest way to break the telecom cartel.
June 26, 2026
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Google Harvests Your Data to Train Gemini AI—Here's How to Opt Out
Google pulls your searches, maps, and photos to train Gemini—while DC embeds its AI into public services
June 26, 2026
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Apple Hikes Prices Up to 54%, Blames AI Chips — Press Buys It
A trillion-dollar company claims it had no choice. Nobody asked about profit margins.
June 26, 2026
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Senate Lets Big Tech CEOs Dodge Child Safety Hearing
Zuckerberg and Pichai get a pass while their platforms censor Americans and fail our kids.
June 26, 2026
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White House Demands Veto Power Over OpenAI's GPT 5.6
The feds who censor speech and track your cash now want to approve who gets American AI.
June 26, 2026
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Meta-Qualcomm AI Chip Pact Threatens Free Speech At Hardware Level
A multi-year deal concentrates AI infrastructure in fewer hands, baking censorship directly into the server fleet.
June 25, 2026
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Wall Street Baffled By Musk's Tesla-SpaceX Merger Endgame
Wall Street calls a Tesla-SpaceX tie-up 'absurd' because yesterday's spreadsheets can't value tomorrow's infrastructure.
June 25, 2026
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Google Pushes Discount Pixels on Prime Day After Chrome Monitoring Scandal
Record discounts on AI-powered Pixels and Nest routers hit Amazon just as Chrome monitoring revelations fade from headlines
June 25, 2026
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Google Gemini Now Watches Your Chrome Screen in Real Time
Pitched as convenience, Google's Gemini lays the groundwork for warrantless screen surveillance.
June 25, 2026
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Even WaPo Admits It: AI Chatbots Lean Left
Silicon Valley's algorithms are the new gatekeepers — and they're feeding you establishment opinion.
June 25, 2026
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Google Wallet Now Feeds Your Face to the TSA
Big Tech and the surveillance state merge under the banner of airport convenience
June 24, 2026
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Google Sheets Now Feeds Your Formulas to Gemini AI
A new 'Fix' button sends your spreadsheet data to Google's AI. Convenient, yes. Private, no.
June 24, 2026
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Americans Pay to Escape Google: Free Market Beats Big Tech Surveillance
Paid search engines like Kagi prove Americans will pay to dodge Big Tech surveillance—and the free market is fixing what regulators won't.
June 24, 2026
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Musk Fires Back at Khanna's Subpoena Demand Over USAID Cuts
A congressman demands state power against a private citizen for dismantling a foreign aid slush fund.
June 24, 2026
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Instagram Hits Samsung TVs: Zuck's Newest Living Room Spy
Meta's quiet push into smart TVs puts another data-harvesting outpost right in your living room.
June 24, 2026
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SpaceX Scores $6.3B AI Compute Deal While Washington Demands Regulation
SpaceX leases AI compute capacity while Washington talks regulation — proving infrastructure builders win while incumbents fall behind.
June 23, 2026
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Meta Straps Surveillance Cameras to Your Face for $299
The censorship giant that tracks your every click now wants to record what you see — and the press is cheering the specs.
June 23, 2026
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Meta's Unelected Board Demands AI Deepfake Takedowns, Expands Censorship Reach
An unelected global tribunal wants to treat all AI impersonation as non-consensual by default — and decide what you're allowed to see online.
June 23, 2026
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Meta Pauses Employee Spyware After Exposing Workers' Private Data to Entire Company
The 'Model Capability Initiative' tracked every keystroke and cursor twitch of Meta's own staff — then left all that data readable by every employee in the company.
June 23, 2026
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Khanna Demands Musk Testify After 'Killing Millions' Charge
A congressman wants Musk hauled before Congress and onto live TV — because DOGE dared to ask where your money went.
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Google Drops $75 Million Into A24 to Shape AI Filmmaking
Big Tech's censorship empire expands from your search bar to the silver screen.
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